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The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

The Salvation Army meeting at Kansas
City, on the 22d, was raided and broken
up by the police. Nineteen members of
the organization were arrested.
AT Quianth, NO., prospectors for natural
gas have encountered at depth of 2OO
feet what is considered to be rich load OF
zinc. Experts pronounce it zinc, and the
run is nine feet thick.
THE Hunter & Evans herds, among the
largest and finest in Montana, numbering
more than $4,000 head, were purchased on
the 21st by French syndicate. The price
paid was between 1850, 900 and 100000.
THE great cattle round up is opening in
Texas, and the cattle men report more
successful "gather" on cattle this spring
than for several years past. Cattle are
also in better condition than they have
been of late years at this season, and the
calf crop is considerably heavier.
ANOTHER big drill on the tapis is to be
held in Chicago, during October. 1t is
proposed to make it an international af-
fair and Gems. Cheatham and Bentley are
on the way to Washington to arrange with
Secretary Bayard to instruct American
representatives abroad to assist the man
ayers of the drill in inducing foreign mill
tary companies to attend.
THE statement prepared by the internal
revenue bureau shows the number of dis
tilleries in operation in Tennessee on the
lst of May to have been forty six, pro-
ducing 266S gallons per day.
THE fifty-hour walking match at Lin
coin, Neb., closed on the 22d, with O'Leary
as the winner. The score was: O'Leary
200 miles, Hart 100 miles, Huffman 14S
miles, and Ross 125 miles.
FOREST FIRES are raging in Clearfield
county, Pa, and near the city of Clarion.
HENRY SARGENT, a prominent soldier of
Akron, Ohio, dropped dead on the streets
ON the 21st. He was one of the survivors
of the steamship DeKalb that exploded
while running the battery in front of
Vicksburg.
THE notorious James Kidd, who has
gained notoriety in southeastern Ken
lucky equal il not grvater than his pirate
namesake, was captured at Somerset on
the 21st. Ever since the close of the war
Kidd has piled his trade of running an
illicit still.
AT inc LlCAiuS CouuOJ, OniOs DcuuOCAdtiC
convention On the 21st the delegates to tn
State convention were instructed to work
and vote for Allen G. Thurman for Gov
ernor.
Miss MAGGIE LONG, aged 10, was burned
to death at Kerrville, Tenn, en- the 2lst.
A FARMER named Ralph Pullen, living
near Trenton, N. j., was on the 2lst
awarded $500 for the alienation of his
lwife's affections by George Z. Phillips, q
neighboring farmer, ~ ar
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THE north bound express train on the
Missouri Pacific, which left Austin, Tex,
on the 18th, was robbed at or near Mcneil
Station, at the crossing of the Missouri
Pacific and the Austin q Northwestern
narrow gauge railways, nine miles from
Austin. The robbers numbered about tif-
teen. The passengers and express were
robbed and two men were reported shot,
but nothing definite was known.
A BERLIN telegram of the 18th to the hide
rcndcmce Beige says the police at Novotcher-
kask have unearthed plot to assassinate
the Gar, and thirty arrests have been
made.
ONE of the most powerful Celtic organi-
cations in this country, the Clan-na Gael, is
said at New York to be about stranded on
the shores of financial ruin by one of its
most prominent officials leaving for parts
unknown with no less than S400OO avail
able funds, which it had gathered together
for the purpose of being used for the cause
of Ireland.
THREE train wreckers were executed
near Morelia, Mex, recently by squad of
soldiers A week previously they had
wrecked a train on the Mexican National,
causing the death of the fireman.
RIoTING was reported at Narva, Russia,
recently, the result of embittered disputes
between the peasants and land owners re-
gardng the ownership of certain woods.
Eight villages in the vicinity of Narva were
concerned in the quarrel.
BOILER explosion at Fulton, KY, re-
Gently killed three and seriously wounded
six men.
THE Woman's National Industrial League
at a largely attended meeting recently in
nd tha Anti ~ NV
League, of New York, and DR., McGlynn's
course.
TIE bound passenger train on the
Atchison, Topeka Il Santa Fe railroad ran
into bunch of cattle twenty miles east of
Denver, Col, ON the 18th, ditching the en-
CINE, mail and express cars. OF three
tramps stealing a ride one named Moore
was killed and the other two slightly in
jured.
The reported Minnesota earthquake
shock was found to have been a terrific eX-
p!osion of nitro glycerine at Spirit lake,
eight miles from Duluth. The nitro-gly-
cerine amounted to aboIt four tons Two
men were thought to have been killed.
LIGHTNING recently killed one man and
severely injured two others who were at
work on farm near Cairo, Ill.
ANTONIO MUCA DE VAIL AMBRosIA, the
Marquis de Mores, well known in connec-
tion with the National Consumers Meat
Company and big cattle ranch proprie
tor, was arrested in New York recently on
complaint of Samuel Grimshaw, who sues
TO recover $4,000, charging the Marquis
with fraud.
OVER 1000 acres of forest, occupying q
tract nearly twomiles long, extending from
Thomastown to Reynolds bridge, Conn,
was burned the other day. The tire was
attributed to sparks from locomotives. A
building for the storage of powder, belong
ing to the Plymouth Granite Company, was
destroyed.
The employees of the John Stephenson
Car Building Company at New York struck
recently for an advance.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26

GENERAL SPINNER says that the first
woman employed in the Treasury De
partmcnt at Washington was jeanette
l.. Douglass. Miss Douglass was born
in Peterboro, Madison County, n. Y,
and was a neighbor of the philanthrop-
ist, Gerritt Smith, and it was through
his influence that General Spinner
made the appointment. Miss Douglass
was. in 1860, a teacher in Mrs. Smiths
female seminary in Washington in the
building occupied by Jefferson Davis
while he was Secretary of War. She
mysteriously disappeared in New York
in 1870 and has never since been heard
FROM
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26
Victory for the Knights.

HAvERHILL, Mass, May 19.-The shoe
makers, lockout has been broken, and
another victory is credited to the
Knights of Labor. At a hate hour
last night committee representing
the Manufacturers Association held
a conference with the local board
of arbitration, and the result was
an order for the employees ol
Chick Bros to resume work as usual
Thursday morning at the prices which
were named in the old contract, which
expired IN July, 1856. Three thousand
men who we're out returned TO work this
morning, and all the associations taeto
ries have resumed.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26

ANEW ground for suit against rail,
way company has just been established
in France. A painter named Board
while travelling on the Paris-Lyons road
was attacked by robber and seriously
wounded. He sued and got damages,
the company being held responsible be-
cause the construction of the cars did
not afford sufficient protection. The
Judges decided that there was genuine
contract between the passenger and
the company, the tieketconstitnting the
written instrument, and that the rail-
road people were bound by it, not only
TO bring the man to hisdestination, but
also to afford him protection during his
Journey.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26

Miss MARY HARDING, the Georgia
girl with whom it was reported John
Howard Payne fell deeply in love when
he went to Rome, Ga, to witness the
signing of treaty with the Cherokees,
and who refused to marry him solely
because of her fathers objections, was
buried ut Athens, in that State, recent
ly The original copy of Home,
Sweet Home" which she had refused
to sell dozen or more times, was
placed in the coffin with her.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26
The yyukesbarre Evictions

wILKEsBARRE, Pa, May l9-No further
evichons of striking miners have been
made by the Wentz Company, but twelve
of the ''amicable suits in eleetment"
which the miners were compelled to sign,
have been filed by the company in the
courthouse, and it may issue the writs oil
eiectments and evict the tenants at any
time. The cruel act of the police in throw
ing sick, Mrs. Danleavy into the street
has drawn severe criticism upon them.
The Pinkerton men deny that thsy iock
part ia the evict'ons. The coal and lros.
police, so-called, who assisted Marsh u
Brockway, are d.aownei py ihs ftAser'
tons,
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26

The soap works of Fairchild Il Skill
ton, the tanncricS of p. I. Barnum and
5. ID. Castle, and number of dwell
ings in Bridgeport, Conn, We're burned
recently, causing loss of 100000,
partly insured. Eleven families were
burned out. The old leather splitting
machine upon which General Grant
worked in Galena, and which was pur-
chased of him at the breaking out of
the war by Castle & Co., was among
the things burned.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26

FIFTY-FIvE years ago Rev. S. F.
Smith, now of Boston, wrote 'My
Country. lis of Thee" The other
night this gentleman, now seventy
nine years of age, but still remarkably
hearty, was entertained by the ladies
of the Grand Army of the Republic at
their parlors in Chicago. Though the
reception was also in honor of the
reverend poets wife. she was not pres
cnt, owing to ill-health, A very en-
ioyable evening was spent.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26
JAMES and William Murphy. rcspec

JAMES and William Murphy, respect
lively thirteen and sixteen years, have
been lodged in Jail at Eau Claire, Wis.
They are accused of having derailcd
a Wisconsin Central passenger train
about ten weeks ago between Eau
Claire and Chippewa Falls Several
trains had barely escaped being wrecked
several times in succession when the
company put armed guards at the
switch, since which time no accidents
have happened. The Murphy boys had
been reading dime novels.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26
Fatal Fracas Between Circus Men.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, May l9,-At Hender-
son, Kv., this morning two men connected
with the Robinson show got into dlfii-
Guilty, during which one of them cut the
other across the throat and breast. The
wounded man walked a few steps, sat
down on chair and expired. The lugu-
lar vein had been severed. and the blood
from the wound formed a pool entirely
across the pavement The murderer es-
capped. The dead man was brought to
this CITY, where he win be buried.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26

THIRTEEN years ago David Salver,
of Rumford, Me, disappeared and was
never heard from. His father has just
died and he, it appears, confessed to one
Bugbec that he had killed his son in
self-defense with stake and buried
the remains under his barn. The mat
ter was not divulged until after the
death of Salver.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26

GENERAL GENE, commander of the
Italian forces at Massowah, has dis
suaded the Government from carrying
out its Abyssinian expedition, on the
ground that the cost and difficulty of
the undertaking would outweigh the
probable gain.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26

THE public executioner at Cologne is
dead. His coffin, built some time ago,
was carefully kept in his rooms. In
his will he asked to be buried in his
official dress. The Cologne executioncr
was the only one in Germany who en-
ployed the guillotine. In all ether
places the axe or the two-handed sword
iS uSn1
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26

A COMPANY has been formed at Hori-
con, Wis, to convert into paper the
reeds and grasses of a great marsh in
that vicinity.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26

ACCORDING to French papers the
Duke of Edinburgh was too drunk to
give the order for the salute in return
to the French complimentary gun
when the Queen arrived in Cannes re-
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26

SIX persons have been killed and
robbed in the vicinity of Odrau, Il small
town in Austrian Silesia, by man who
was recently released from prison. The
murderer was still at large.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26

THE HindOO Patriot states that sew
eral novels have lately been written by
Hindoo ladies in Bengali, some of
which are Of considerable merit.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26

ISABELLA Y. PRINCE, of California,
has been called to Toxic, Japan, to es-
tablish a school of domestic science
Her pupils will be ladies of the highest
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26
CURRENT COMMENT.

THE contract for the Manchester
(England) ship canal has been let for
$25. 900. 600.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26

THE Bavarian Diet has been dis
solved. Elections for new Diet will
be held OH June q.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-05-26
THE MONUMENT.

The following description of the monu-
ment will be of in terest: The base of the
structure is eight feet three inches
square, supporting pedestal of two pol
ished stones, with lntaglio border, the
upper stone projecting. On the southern
face, in raised panel, appear in bold
letters:
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PERSONAL.

Lord Randolph Churchill makes his
presence felt on the turf as he does in ParIia-
nent. He is nothing IL not prominent.
Two Russian grand dukes and any
number of New York earls and countesses will
attend the English royal jubilee in force.
Miss Evelyn Ames, daughter of the
governor of Massachusetts, has studied under
Itubenstein and is said to be very fine pianist.
Secretary Fairchild is, short and stout.
He is an outdoor man In his tastes, having
been for years a member Of athletic clubs of
all kinds.
The Queen of Sweden has undergone
an operation at Stockholm for cancer. but the
chances of her ultimate recovery are very
doubtful.
Secretary Endicott has the reputation
of being, next to the great Secretary Stanton,
the most pugnacious secretary the department
has had. He loves fight.
Governor Church, of Dakota, did a
funny thing lately. He appointed his hired
man veterinary surgeon Of the Territory. The
man, however, knows his business.
DR.. Mary Walker has found her mis-
sion at last She has been lecturing on woman's
rights in Philadelphia, and men are said to
" turn gray at the mention Of her name.
Sancho Panza would have enjoyed the
society of Mr.. Henry Russell, OF Royal Oak,
Mich. MFR. Russell recently slept for more than
twenty days. This beats the best police record.
Miss Marie Engel, Chicago girl, is
Colonel Mapleson's latest protegee. When the
London dudes hear her MARBLE they exclaim
n xr<.faa haar ufrfQf
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GHILpREN,S NOTIONS.

A little four-year-old of my acquaint-
ance was much impressed with her first out-of-
doors in tho starlight. On her arrival home
she skipped joyfully up TO her mother with the
glad tidingsi "Oh mamma! Two SEGA, the moon
and all her little childrens."
During the war, when one of our South
ern cities was under martial law, band music
was a common occurrence and source of
unfailing delight TO q small child, Kittie.
She could never hear enough of 1t, and one
evening, when her mother called her into the
house, the following little maiden stoutiy
declined the invitation. "But you win catch
your death o. cold, dear" her mother argued.
"No matter, mamma; the band plays all day
up IN Heaven, and it don't play only but two
times here"
Make was the little six-year-old daugh-
ter of a clergyman who had taken great pains
with her religious instruction, and had held
before her the goodness OF the Supreme Being,
so that she should have in her mind al
ways His kindness and mercy us well as power.
One morning her mother, passing the open
door of the room In which the child was play
Ing, saw Miss Make standing on d chair before
the mirror, with her face scrutinizlng her little
phiz with great earnestness, and with "a long
sigh she remarked, II don't see how God could
have givenme such nose, when He knows how
particular l am"
Hattie was not at all familiar with
''darkies;" indeed, her whole acquaintance
with the race was limited TO one stalwart ebony
friend, whose face fairly shone with blackness,
She never could understand about 1t. Her
loyal fricndliness and deep pity were at vari-
anco, and her small soul WIS often stirred
within her. mamma" she said, one day, ibid
God make Mr.. Jacksonr' "Why, yes, dear
OF course he did," her mother answered, sur
prised. Thefe was long silence, which the little
lady devoted to much deep thought then,
with u troubled sigh, "Mamma, do you suppose
God thought he was pretty?'
Small Jamie was at his devotions one
royal winters morning. Now IL happened that
great hill sloped just past the window neal
which our little worshiper was kncellng, ant
honesty compels me 10 acknowledge that ON,
of Jamie's eyes was intent on temporal things
while the other was piously given TO those o.
spiritual import. Midway in the petition
Jamie's temporal eye spied PROSTATE figurt
coming jubilantly down hill. II was too muci
for the small mans piety. The spiritual eye
flow open wide. and Jamie darted 10 the win
dow and uttered an excited "Who-oo-opr
then dropped upon his knees and ended hi
urayer.
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ooNrEr-cATcH1Ne.

Some Picturesque Details About a New
American Industry.
It is pleasing to note that American indus
facilities for money-making are constantly
being discovered.
One of the latest methods of obtaining the
cart-wheel dollar is TO go into the comet
hunting industry.
Comets are worth money now. Formerly
they had no monetary value, and were used
chiefly to frigiten people, who regarded
them as signs of war or of the approach of q
new poem from the Poet Laureate, or Of
some other disaster.
1t remained for an enterprising American
to make them an article of commerce, and
now these celestial nomads command a gooJ
price.
A gentleman by the name of Warner is in
the market buying all the comets that can
be secured. As consequence comet-catch-
ing has become remunerative sport and
one man has bagged no less than $1,000
worth of them in year or two, without in
terfering with his ordinary vocation.
That is enough money to buy his wife a
spring bonnet.
Comets are hunted after sunset only, as
during the day they manage to keep them
selves hidden.
As they are accustomed to roam at con
siderable distance from the hunter, a long
range breech-loading telescopes necessary to
the sport. But once sighted, the capture OF
the game is easy. All that 1t is necessary to
do is to draw bead on the animal, stake out
claim in the surrounding space and tele-
graph to Mr.. Warner that you have captured
comet, and are ready TO deliver the goods.
Comets seldom escape after this. After
being shot, even though not fatally wounded,
they CONSIDERABLY loaf in the vicinity until
Mr.. Warner has had an opportunity to ex-
anime his purchase and brand II with his
monogram. am not certain what he feeds
called posse. AT all events, once heard a
man speak about the posse comet ate us. So
fsuppose he was one of Mr.. Warmers comet
feeders.
l do not know what Mr.. Warmers little
scheme is in buying up the entire cometary
production.
Perhaps he wants to corner the market. :
Perhaps he wants to form a company,
water the stock, boom prices and then unload
on an unsuspecting public. Such things
have been done with other forms of property
Perhaps he intends to can their meat anc
hbelit @bonedturkey," "sprng chicken, etc.
Perhaps he intends to melt them down and
use the fat as an adulterant of lard whdA cot
ton-seed oil gets scarce.
Whatever may be his object, he takes all
the comets he can get. His only stipulation
is that they must be fresh. Like eggs, comets
are of no use when fatigued. ALI attempts
IN less'Js at ale cnnaets off .-non
Mr. Warner prove failures.
While he insists upon their freshness he Is
not particular as to their race, color or previ-
Gus condition of servitude.
They may be knock-kneed, pigeon-toed
bow-legged broken-winded, spawned, af-
fiicted with poll-evil, troubled with bolts, or
they may even be cross-eyed, if they are
strictly fresh. He'll take them all at 800
each, and he asks no discountif half dozen
or more are taken to his shop at once.
WIN. III. SIv1TEa.
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ethose noisome resorts now being rapidly
stamped out by the police, where SIN takes
on the most audacious forms, such as cannot
be here (and ought not to be anywhere0 de-
scribed.
But 1t would take many such articles as
this to fully describe what goes on in the
Bowery. There are the pretty waiter girl,
concert saloons, the five-cent restaurants
the mock auction stores, the famous and rep
utable jewelry store where duplicate we'd
ding gifts are bought and sold the pawn
brokers shops and those veritable museums
1.-The stores where mredeemed pledges from
the pawnshops are collected and sold. There
are the gambling dens, the synagognes, the
cheap hat and clothing stores where goods
seem almost to be given away Finally
there is the palatial Mission House where
the Rev. Mr.. Dooley battles with sin and
vice and yanquishes great deal of it amid
the most interesting experiences.
The Bowery is a fit and ample subject
for book. 1t never closes or sleeps. 1t
is as close to being perpetual motion ma
chine as anything artificial can be.
JULIAN RALPH.
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NUTMEGs.
How They Get Their White Color and Why
Girls Wear Them on Their Necks.

How They Get Their White Color and why
Girls Wear Them ON Their Necks.
Down In the cellar of Water-street
warehouse man was shoyeling nutmegs
into coarse sieve and rafting away
like frugal housekeeper with an ash
sitter.
"What's the matter with them ~ VEN
tured the EgeRing Sttn-beam.
"Nothing," answered the performer.
oDon't you see Pm only grading them ~
"Won't the grocer charge more for o
big nutmeg than for little oneg
"Well, right here in these boxes the
nuts are just as they came from Singa-
pore and Batavia. They are what the
trade calls 110's that Is, 40 nuts to the
pound, and that is the way this firm
bought 'em; but as matter Of fact HOS
average better than that, and It pays us
to pick out the big ones and sell them
separately--see? The largest nuts run
about seventy to the pound, but there are
some feather-weigh that go ten to the
ounce"
4sWhat makes them look so white p
Cline. It was shaken over them when
they were packed for shipment. It keeps
them fresh, and 1t weighs something too.
When you buy nutmegs In the East each
one of these boxes goes for half a
picul. But the New York jobber takes
very little for granted when he puts his
money into merchandise that has sailed
as far as these nuts have. Every box of
them has got to be weighed on the
Yankee beam, and on freedoms own
soil, too; and, what is more, ten per
cent. of every parcel must be tared be-
fore the jobber let's go of his silver dol
lars. Foreign weights must be natural
ized, like the foreigner himself, before
we take much stock In them.
tNutmegs that average ITO to the
pound cost US about half cent apiece,
but before they get to the snowy head Of
milk punch, or into the inner richness
of rice pudding, they cost the consumer
two or three cents each. Formerly Sing
apore used to have the lead on Batavia
for nutmegs, but now honors are easy.
Nutmeg immigrants from the latter port
usually call at the Dutch paternal home
| in Rotterdam and then take steamer
hence; but the Singapore variety, true to
natural instinct, generally drops in at
| London to see the old folks before wind
| ing up at the foot of Hudson street, New
| York. The direct steamers all berth on
the East river side, and discharge their
cargo of aromatic exiles amid the faded
| glories of Cherry Hill.
''Lots of pretty girls wear a nutmeg
| round their necks as a charm against
sickness. 1t Is to them like a scapular to
| the pious or the face Of her beloved to the
| loye-lorn maid .n-Ne,o York Sun.